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To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (59795)	7/12/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: mark weston	Respond to of 186894

what's going on inside intel?http://www.techweb.com/investor/opinion/mavens/semicon/1998/home.html mark weston

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (59795)	7/12/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Francis Chow	Respond to of 186894

Speaking of PAIN, according to an article in theStreet.com, Friday night, the options MMs are in a total rout this month. There may be a flood of MM blood on Wall Street next Friday across the tech sector. Well my blood is in there too. I learned important lessons on this one. Next time a stock moves the other way, in a big way, right after a purchase, I get out immediately and cut my losses instead of waiting for the turn. As I pointed out earlier, the dollar value of open interest is much higher for quarterlies (April, July, October, January), maybe by as much as an order of magnitude. This could wipe out MM gains in other months.

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (59795)	7/12/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ben, Can you tell us what percentage of options are written by MM's and what percentage by individual investors such as myself? I routinely write both puts and calls. Am I a small minority? EP

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (59795)	7/13/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "The INTC Max-Pain point is $75. It won't take much to bring the price back to Max-Pain, in fact that move may already be in the works for Monday's price action in the sector... " +++++++++++++++ What a surprise 82 is. jim

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (59795)	7/19/1998 10:31:00 AM
From: Ben Antanaitis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

The Max-Pain July'98 finalized Max-Pain options analysis graphs are available for viewing. All but ~4.6% of the July'98 put contracts went out worthless as the stock price rose during the week to close at $83 1/8. The July'98 covered call writers will be feeling most of the pain this month. Earnings report months seem to be too volatile for Max-Pain to be a good indicator at these times. Ben A. ez-pnf.com PS Aug'98 Max-Pain graphs to be posted next Saturday.